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Show THE FAMOUS LIBBY TUNNEL. It an Completed Jnat Twenty-. r.n loan Ago To-day. Chicago, Feb. 9. Special to Thb Times. Twenty-seven years ago to- day the famous underground tunnel from Libby prison was completed and before daylight the next morning 109 union officers had made their escape through it. Fifty-eight of that number were recaptured and about sixty of the 109 are still alive to toll the story. The event today was observed bv a reunion under the auspices of the Libby Prison Tunnel association, which was attended by ex-prisoners of war who had any connection with the historical Incident. A banquet will be given tonight, at which General II. C. Hobartof Milwau. , kee, president of the association, will ' preside. |